Sundance Film Festival 2023: 20 Movies You Need To Know About
11. You Hurt My Feelings
Sometimes a movie about a seemingly trivial subject can end up saying something seriously interesting about the human condition, and that's Nicole Holofecener's (Enough Said) new film in a nutshell.
You Hurt My Feelings revolves around Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a novelist who is struggling to complete her latest book and then overhears her therapist husband Don (Tobias Menzies) telling somebody else that he doesn't actually like the book.
Holofcener's script insightfully examines the nature and necessity of honesty in relationships - namely, when does something cross the line between being a white lie and a troubling deception?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is unsurprisingly excellent as a woman unable to get out of her own ego's way, and what could've easily felt like a "First World problem" movie is ultimately something much more profound and surprisingly affecting than that.
You Hurt My Feelings releases later this year.